This is an analysis of Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley.
Was I a Samurai renowned,
Two-sworded, fierce, immense of bow?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbC XbabdcdC ababbcbC XXbcbc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,6,
- Metre: 11010101 11010101 010100101 01010111 11010111 10010100 11010101 11110101 111101010 110100101 111101001 01010101 11010111 010110101 11100101 11110101 11010111 1111001011 01010111 11001111 100101011 11110101 01011101 11110101 10 11010101 11110101 01000101 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
i
Anaphora
a
